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Mollestadeika

Krg · CC BY-SA 4.0

77% trees around it and 184 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

Notable treeWild

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded184

The forest around

77% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 63%Grassland 20%Water 9%Bare ground 1%Cropland 5%Built-up 1%Trees 79%Grassland 10%Wetland 0%Water 6%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%Trees 82%Grassland 12%Water 4%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 82%Grassland 11%Water 5%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km63%
  • 1–3 km79%
  • 3–6 km82%
  • 6–10 km82%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees79%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water6%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up3%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

184 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Bigleaf lupine
Bigleaf lupineLupinus polyphyllus25 recordsJoe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bulbous rush
Bulbous rushJuncus bulbosus11 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Dortmann's cardinalflower
Dortmann's cardinalflowerLobelia dortmanna10 recordsRolf Engstrand · CC BY 2.5
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia8 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur7 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
American shoreweed
American shoreweedLittorella uniflora7 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small-leaved Lime
Small-leaved LimeTilia cordata6 recordsImreKiss · CC BY 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies6 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Goat Willow
Goat WillowSalix caprea6 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana5 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

78out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 184Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan0°-4°144 mm
  2. Feb0°-5°103 mm
  3. Mar3°-3°91 mm
  4. Apr9°0°81 mm
  5. May14°5°99 mm
  6. Jun18°9°99 mm
  7. Jul20°11°114 mm
  8. Aug18°10°138 mm
  9. Sep14°7°134 mm
  10. Oct9°3°170 mm
  11. Nov4°0°153 mm
  12. Dec1°-3°142 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mollestadeika.

Legendary tree in Southern Norway

Mollestadeika is a notable tree in Norway.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

184 species have been recorded around it: 74 plants, 3 fungi, 103 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bigleaf lupine, Bulbous rush and Dortmann's cardinalflower.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Mollestadeika2021
Krg · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Mollestadeika seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmBarnevandrerstien, del 6, Barnevandrerstien, del 7, Gubbeløypa
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmMollestadeika
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 kmEriksbu, Elveplassen, Flakkefossen and 5 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmGaltetjønnåsen
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 19car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmFlakk Gård, Camp Flakksvann, Hagestad Hytteutleie and 1 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Mollestadeika.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1,671 mountains within 25 km
Gråskollheia377 m · 18 kmBarlindåsen354 m · 18 kmSvartetjønnfjellet361 m · 20 kmDobbedalshei361 m · 22 kmSvillåsen351 m · 22 kmTrolldalsåsen435 m · 24 kmBytingsåsen377 m · 25 kmSlettåsen375 m · 25 km
Lakeyas13 lakes within 15 km
Flakksvannet0.6 km² · 1.7 kmVestre Grimevann1.6 km² · 7.8 kmOgge7.3 km² · 10 kmSteinsvannet0.6 km² · 10 kmAustre Grimevannet4.0 km² · 11 kmBjåvannet0.4 km² · 12 kmLangedalsvannet0.2 km² · 14 kmVenneslafjorden1.7 km² · 15 km
Cascadyas16 waterfalls within 15 km
Øygardsfossen2.8 kmHengefoss8.1 kmBoenfoss8.8 kmHelvedesfossen10 kmIkkonfoss13 kmUrfossen13 kmSteinfossen14 kmHallandsfossen15 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Tovdalselva143 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Mollestadeika

Norway

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 184Species

Vestmarka

Norway · 213 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 1,941Species

See the guide

Østmarka

Norway · 233 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 1,402Species

See the guide

Rold Skov

Denmark · 195 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 329Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11989825) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,497 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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